Jacob Abbott
Queen Elizabeth
Makers of History
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664638946
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
The author of this series has made it his special object to confine himself very strictly, even in the most minute details which he records, to historic truth. The narratives are not tales founded upon history, but history itself, without any embellishment or any deviations from the strict truth, so far as it can now be discovered by an attentive examination of the annals written at the time when the events themselves occurred. In writing the narratives, the author has endeavored to avail himself of the best sources of information which this country affords; and though, of course, there must be in these volumes, as in all historical accounts, more or less of imperfection and error, there is no intentional embellishment. Nothing is stated, not even the most minute and apparently imaginary details, without what was deemed good historical authority. The readers, therefore, may rely upon the record as the truth, and nothing but the truth, so far as an honest purpose and a careful examination have been effectual in ascertaining it.
ENGRAVINGS.
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| PORTRAIT OF DRAKE | Frontispiece |
| PORTRAIT OF HENRY VIII | 16 |
| PORTRAIT OF ANNE BOLEYN | 20 |
| GROUP OF CHRISTENING GIFTS | 25 |
| TOWER OF LONDON | 31 |
| PORTRAIT OF EDWARD VI. | 44 |
| LADY JANE GREY AT STUDY | 63 |
| PORTRAIT OF PHILIP OF SPAIN | 84 |
| ELIZABETH IN THE TOWER | 112 |
| ELIZABETH'S PROGRESS TO LONDON | 135 |
| THE FIRTH OF FORTH, WITH LEITH AND EDINBURGH IN THE DISTANCE |
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